Passport application procedures have been streamlined in Japan to strengthen measures against counterfeiting and forgeries. According to the Foreign Ministry, enhanced security features are being ...

In a recent update, Japan has come up with a new passport design which aims at improving security and preventing forgery. The new passports will be made available from 24 March, 2024. It will ...

A park in Japan’s central prefecture of Shizuoka was recently crowned the world’s smallest, according to Guinness World ...

Meanwhile, troubling new data from the Foreign Ministry shows that just one in six Japanese citizens, or 17.5%, held a passport at the end of 2024.

In a significant leap towards modernizing airport procedures, NEC has announced its receipt of a contract from the Immigration Services Agency for a walk-through gate featuring cutting-edge facial ...

While hiking in Colombia, I ruined my passport by allowing it to get wet during a rainstorm. Years later, I made the same mistake at a rainy baseball game in Japan. This time, it was worse.

Japan’s passport is the best in the world for a fifth year standing, according to the annual “passport index” released on Jan. 10 by the British consultancy Henley and Partners. The index ...